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"Oh, Mother!" said Kate

"Now you lookey here," said Mrs Bates "Suppose you was a man of

Robert's brains, and education, and professional ability, and you

made heaps of money, and no children came, and you had to see all

you earned, and stood for, and did in a co would you feel? What end is

that for the ambition and life work of a real man? Hoould you

like it?"

"I never thought of such a thing," said Kate

"Well, mark my word, you WILL think of it when you see their hoether," said Mrs Bates

"She still loves pretty clothing so well?" asked Kate

"She is the best-dressed wo," said Mrs Bates, "and that's all there is to her I'm

free to say with her chances, I'm ashamed of what she has, and

hasn't made of herself I'd rather stand in your shoes, than

hers, this minute, Katie"

"Does she know I'm here?" asked Kate

"Yes I stopped and told her on ," said

Mrs Bates "I asked the"

"Did you deliver the invitation by force?" asked Kate

"Now, none of your ot what I went

after, and that was all I wanted I've told her an' told her to

co the last three years, an' I know she WANTED

to come; but she just had that stubborn Bates streak in her that

wouldn't let her change, once her ive

us a purty severe jolt, Kate, havin' all that good Bates money

burn up"